Text may refer to:

Written word

  • Text (literary theory), any object that can be read, including:
  • Religious text, a writing that a religious tradition considers to be sacred
  • Text, a verse or passage from scripture used in expository preaching
  • Textbook, a book of instruction in any branch of study

Computing and telecommunications

  • Plain text, unformatted text
  • Text file, a type of computer file opened by most text software
  • Text string, a sequence of characters manipulated by software
  • Text message, a short electronic message designed for communication between mobile phone users
  • tEXt, an ancillary chunk in the PNG image file format
  • Text, the former name of Apple's Messages instant messenger
  • Text (company), an AI and customer service software company
  • Texts (software), now Beeper (application), a chat app for several messaging services

Arts and media

  • TEXT, a Swedish band
  • Text & Talk (formerly Text), an academic journal
  • "Text", a 2010 bonus track by Mann featuring Jason Derulo from Mann's World, 2010
  • TxT (film), a 2006 Filipino horror film
  • Text (film), a 2019 Russian film
  • "Text" (Not Going Out), a 2022 television episode

See also

  • Copy (written), written material in publications
  • Discourse (disambiguation)
  • Enriched text, formatted text format for e-mail
  • Formatted text, digital text which has styling information beyond minimal semantic elements
  • Rich Text Format, a proprietary document file format by Microsoft
  • SMS (Short Message Service), the "texting" function of mobile phones
  • Rich Communication Services (RCS), the modern successor to SMS
  • Tex (disambiguation)
  • TeX, typesetting software
  • Text display, electronic alphanumeric display device
  • Text mode, computer display mode based on characters
  • Text segment, the portion of computer file containing executable instructions
  • Writing, representation of language in a textual medium